Classic Font: Engrossing

Engrossing is one of our earliest fonts, originally released in the early 1990s. It is based on one of the very first examples of printed type in a script style. The historic source design was derived from common 17th century calligraphy, simplified for conversion to type and it became the precursor of all of the other styles of script fonts.

This updated version of Engrossing includes corrected characters and an expanded character set with additional symbol characters and additional variant versions of some of the standard characters.

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